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William Lloyd Garrison to Ebenezer Dole thanking him for money, 14 July 1830
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William Lloyd Garrison to Ebenezer Dole thanking him for money, 14 July 1830.
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Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
William Lloyd Garrison, the symbol of immediate abolition, had first-hand knowledge of poverty. His father, a sailing master, had abandoned his family when Garrison was three years old. Having little formal schooling, Garrison educated himself while he worked as a printer's apprentice. He then supported himself as a journalist and editor of a weekly reform newspaper. Garrison's former master described his apprentice as a diligent student with an ardent temperament and warm imargination and unshaken courage, but also hasty, stubborn, and dogmatic. This letter by Garrison refers to his imprisonment for criminal libel. In the Genius of Universal of Emancipation, an antislavery newspaper, Garrison had accused a merchant of transporting 75 slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans, and declared that the man should be SENTENCED TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR LIFE. In Baltimore Garrison was found guilty and fined [dollar sign] 50 plus court costs. Unable to pay, Garrison was confined in prison for seven weeks, before Arthur Tappan (1786-1865), a New York merchant and philanthropist, provided the money for his release.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Signed twice (once struck out) by the famous abolitionist editor Garrison to Dole. Was writing to thank Dole for the 100 dollars he sent. Garrison did not know Dole before he sent the money. Speaks of his prison time for libel in Baltimore a month before and compares it to slavery, saying how much better his condition was. Says Ah! dear sir, how wide the difference! He goes on to eloquently contrast a free person who is put in prison to a black slave on a plantation. Also says he is shocked that the North does not understand the horrors of slavery, their prejudices were invincible - stronger, if possible, than those of slaveholders. Says he sees the 100 dollars as a loan with interest and signs a receipt at the bottom of page three, witnessed by Isaac Knapp. The receipt is crossed out, possibly by Dole.
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American history, 1493-1945. Module I.
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English
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March 18, 2024
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American history module 1
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Correspondence
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